Knowing that people out there still love and appreciate “Teen Wolf” brings great joy to my heart, similar to the way Boof made me feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside. And so we have the story of the former Greg White - now Stylez G. White.

Mr. White is a defensive end for the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers who decided to honor “Wolf Fever” by officially changing his name to Stylez G. White. So it’s not EXACTLY the same way that “Stiles” spelled it in the movie, but close enough. After all, the original Stiles was the inspiration behind the legal name change for Mr. White. In particular, the classic performance of “Win In The End” that plays during the final championship basketball game scene most likely won him over.

Stylez G. White, I salute thee. If I was Scotty, I would tear open a beer with my wolf chompers in your honor. Thank you for passing on the love of an 80’s pop culture legend to a new generation. I know Chubby would be proud.

What can I say about Dan in Real Life? Heartwarming.

I’m not a professional movie critic, but to me, Dan in Real Life is simply a heartwarming, brilliantly written movie of a widower, doing his best to raise three daughters while struggling with his suppressed desire to do something for himself.

I, myself, have never been in this situation, so take my “brilliantly written” with a grain of salt, but for me, it was a pinwheel of emotion. I found myself circling the range of sentiment, from happiness to sadness, to discomfort and back to happiness.

The overall plot-line was superb, but, to be critical, I felt the individual characters often behaved irrationally. But as we all know, individuals are irrational. Maybe I’m too used to seeing caricatures in movies instead of dynamic, realistic, sentient being.

f you are looking for a barrel full of laughs, look elsewhere. If you’re looking for American Beauty meets Along Came Poly, Dan in Real Life is for you.

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In the real world, a “power couple” might be a married couple, both lawyers. But in the movies, power couples come in all forms. Below is a list of my top six power couples.

Disclaimer: I apologize to comic book geeks (yes, you Yorick). I used movie power couples; in the comic books some of these super heroes may be divorced or separated, now a single parent, trying to make it in a world with no water because the greed of men brought a great drought and now people live off cigarettes and melted ice caps…yawn.

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I have read and watched the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Both were a while ago, but late one night I began wondering if Gandalf really left it all out on the court.

Gandalf started out Grey. He was the second most powerful wizard in all the land. Upon his new self-appointed nickname, Gandalf the White, and with Saruman out of the picture, Gandalf failed to impress. (Saruman, btw, had whooped Gandalf’s grey butt previously.) Possibly the most impressive thing he did all through the trilogy was creating that large dragon firework. Was Gandalf just a glorified pyrotechnics expert?

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Growing up, I was always Batman and my brother was always Superman. I know this because I still get Batman pens, pencils, stationary, and the occasional t-shirt for Christmas. I think I even got a wallet one year, at age 24. I never used it and I don’t burn Batman-scented candles, but I was stoked when Batman Begins melted my face off, in a good way.

As we all know, Batman Begins moved away from the cartoon and corny Bartman of the 1990s to a complex, kick-ass, highly trained ninja of the new millennium. But the long-awaited sequel, to be released in the summer of 2008, is starting a second-string: Maggie Gyllenhaal.

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